JONESBORO, Ark. (2/27/24) – Arkansas State women's basketball owned a halftime lead, but a second-half surge by ULM proved to be the difference in a 69-60 loss to the Warhawks Tuesday night inside First National Bank Arena.
Four players scored in double figures for the Red Wolves (13-15, 6-11 SBC), who shot at a .429 clip as a team. The Warhawks (18-11, 10-7) won the rebounding battle, 40-30, and owned a .413 field-goal percentage.
Lauryn Pendleton became the 28th member of A-State's 1,000-Point Club, scoring a team-high 13 points to eclipse the career milestone. Wynter Rogers recorded her first career double-double with 11 points and a game-high 11 rebounds, while Anna Griffin and Crislyn Rose also accounted for 11 points each.
ULM's Daisha Bradford led all players with 24 points and Jakayla Johnson added 13. Kaitlyn Manuel and Brianna Harris also scored in double figures, with 12 and 11, respectively.
The visitors took an early two-possession lead before Pendleton tied it at 10 with a layup midway through the first quarter, which put her over the 1,000-career points mark. ULM would go on to reclaim the lead, owning a 21-18 edge after the first 10 minutes.
A-State answered by outscoring the Warhawks 21-13 in the second quarter and led by as much as nine en route to taking 39-34 halftime lead.
The Red Wolves matched their largest lead of the night on a 3-point play by Rose with 7:32 to go in the third, but ULM trimmed the margin down to 49-48 with 10 minutes to play. The Warhawks closed strong in the fourth quarter to move past A-State, ending the contest on a 10-0 run.
A-State concludes the regular season at 7 p.m. Friday, hosting Appalachian State. The game will be broadcasted live on ESPN Plus, while the radio broadcast can be heard on The Ticket Radio Network stations 95.3 and 96.9, as well as the A-State Athletics mobile app.
